"All narratives, even the confusing, are implicitly hopeful;……" — Lucy Grealy
"All narratives, even the confusing, are implicitly hopeful; they speak of a world that can be ordered, and thus understood."
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17 Quotes by Lucy Grealy
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When I tried to imagine being beautiful, I could only imagine living without the perpetual fear of being alone, without…
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Anxiety and anticipation, I was to learn, are the essential ingredients in suffering from pain, as opposed to feeling pain…
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I treated despair in terms of hierarchy: if there was a more important pain in the world, it meant my…
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I used to think truth was eternal, that once I knew, once I saw, it would be with me forever,…
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I spent five years of my life being treated for cancer, but since then I've spent fifteen years being treated…
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While our bodies move ever forward on the time line, our minds continuously trace backward, seeking shape and meaning as…
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I began a lifelong affair with nostalgia, with only the vaguest notions of what I was nostalgic for.
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Does something which exists on the edge have no true relevance to the stable center, or does it, by being…
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Sometimes the briefest moments capture us, force us to take them in, and demand that we live the rest of…
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I used to think that once you really knew a thing, its truth would shine on forever. Now it's pretty…
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Part of the job of being human is to consistently underestimate our effect on other people...
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Beauty, as defined by society at large, seemed to be only about who was best at looking like everyone else.
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